Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10999

    ‘Sagartia, Adamsia’ [Sea anemones]

    Date
    1884
    Creator - Organisation
    Werner & Winter GmbH, Lithographers
    After
    Angelo Andres (1851 - 1934, Italian) , Zoologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    29641
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 320mm
    width (print): 252mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Two underwater scenes featuring marine biological studies showing anemones classified by the author as Sagartia dohrnii, Adamsia palliata on the shell of the hermit crab Pagurus prideaux and Adamsia rondeletii, again symbiotically attached to a hermit crab.

    Plate 3 from the Naples Zoological Station journal series, this volume Le attinie. Monografia del Dr Angelo Andres (Leipzig, Wilhelm Englemann, 1884). German title: Fauna und flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden meres-abschniitte…von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. IX monographie: Die Actinien von Dr Angelo Andres.

    Inscribed below: ‘Sagartia, Adamsia. A. Andres ad viv pinx. Verlag v.Wilh.Engelmann, Leipzig. Lith. Anst.v.Werner & Winter, Frankfurt a/M.’

    Angelo Andres (1851-1934) was a marine zoologist and friend of Felix Anton Dohrn FRS (1840-1909) first Director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy.
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